The Faulkner County Historical Society holds its annual Gala Dinner on Saturday, November 19, starting at 6 pm at Cadron Settlement Park. Tickets are $50 or $80 per couple; we only have 6 seats remaining as of publish time. Contact us at 501-329-8584 for more information.
Reprinted here by special permission of the author, Cindy Beckman, a retired Conway High School history teacher who writes local history.
Starting in the late 1950s, many rural Faulkner County residents received their phone services from Allied Telephone Company rather than Southwestern Bell. Allied would merge with another large telephone provider, Mid-Continent Telephone of Ohio in 1983 to form ALLTEL Corporation.
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In connection with Arkansas Archives Month there will be a workshop held on using archival records to preserve historic structures on October 29. It will be from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM at the North Little Rock Heritage Center.
This will involve how to use deeds and records, platt maps, historic photographs, city directories, Sanborn maps, and Continue reading
100 YEARS AGO, October 18, 1916
♦ Albert Williams of near Mount Vernon is in the city today. Mr. Williams says crops are turning out well in his vicinity. J. T. Hogan of Mount Vernon has already ginned over 1,000 bales of cotton.
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As you know, the Faulkner County Museum is currently closed for unexpected repairs to its flat roof, which was found to have sprung a leak, dripping water into the masonry and causing mold to grow in a storage room. County officials, who were preparing for a major interior renovation project over several years, temporarily closed the building on August 15 to clean up the mold and repair the leaky roof — but the Museum is forging ahead with its fundraising projects anyway.
“We’re selling the ornaments to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Museum, which will be next year, 2017 Continue reading